The Table Top Sports Games of Chris Saguisag
I think I found a possible reason why I can’t seem to wrap my head around Inside the Paint and Inside the Crease basketball and hockey games. And it’s dumb.
Both of those games use a fast action card (FAC) system as opposed to dice. I like rolling dice more than flipping cards.
This may be why I’ve found Glory Days Boxing more fun to play, for me, than Title Bout II, which also uses a FAC system.
And I was able to grasp the basics of SSG basketball because of it’s dice roll mechanic similar to Payoff Pitch Baseball. I’ve tried using the FACs for Payoff Pitch, but always find myself reverting back to using dice.
I was never a big Statis Pro Baseball gamer because of the cards.
I did pull out Statis Pro Basketball this morning, and may try to play a game to see if this reasoning holds water or not.
Stay tuned!
I’m not sure what caused my current interest in my boxing games.
That said, I think I’ll be focusing again on Title Bout II and Glory Days Boxing.
DICE Boxing will be played if I ever get more than half of the boxers printed out (print-and-play game). Same goes for Diggin’ Deep Boxing and Main Event Boxing.
I should go through the original Title Bout game that I won from eBay.
I may or may not get a printed version of Legends of Boxing.
Stay tuned!
Foreman knocked Marciano down in each of the first two rounds, but a stunning blow to the ribs by Marciano in the 6th eventually led to Foreman taking too much punishment to continue after the 9th round.
Rocky Marciano, Title Bout II Heavyweight Tournament Champion!
This tournament took way longer than is should have, from April 2018 to now, just to play out 15 fights.
I’ll try to do my next tournament in a more timely matter, by reducing the fight length (10 rounds instead of 15) and playing more fights in one sitting/session.
Stay tuned!
While going through the rule book for the new boxing game, they used Muhammad Ali and Jack Dempsey for all the examples
So I decided to play my first fight with them.
I’m going to do 10 round fights from here on out, instead of the 15 round bouts that I ran in Title Bout II.
Results:
Scoring is a bit more extensive in this new game, though I think I can use the three judge system in Title Bout II as well. Here you can roll on optional charts to get a referee and judges for your fight. Judges can affect a fight through scoring, as can the ref by their biases toward the fighters themselves.
I did miss some cut/swelling checks in the earlier rounds, though Ali received swelling on his right eye about halfway into the fight. I think that woke him up and he outscored Dempsey for the rest of the contest.
Unanimous decision: Muhammad Ali defeats Jack Dempsey.
Verdict: I like this game.
Though I’ll still play Title Bout II for the other weight classes that Glory Days doesn’t have.
And perhaps I’ll dabble in DICE Boxing, if I ever get around to printing out the boxers from even more weight classes.
Stay tuned!
Fight #1
Marciano was relentless after Dempsey broke his nose in the 2nd, easily winning the next 4 rounds until the ref stopped the fight at 1:32 of the 7th round. Dempsey was also knocked down in the 2nd, shortly after the broken nose.
Fight #2
After splitting the first two rounds, where Foreman gave Tyson a bloody nose in the first, Foreman knocked Tyson out 34 seconds into the third.
So we have our Heavyweight Championship Bout all set:
The Brockton Blockbuster, Rocky Marciano, versus Big George Foreman
Stay tuned!
